10 things you stop worrying about after 30

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

With age, we think more and more about our desires and less and less about other people's opinions.

1. New trends

At the age of 20, it is very scary to lag behind fashion: not to know that they are listening and watching now, what slang they use, what they wear, what they are fond of. At 30, you start doing what is important for you, without thinking about how trendy you are. And you are not at all embarrassed if you missed some fashionable trend.

Researchers who study the activity of buyers from different age groups come to the conclusion Generation Y vs. Baby Boomers: Shopping behavior, buyer involvement and implications for retailing, that older people are more pragmatic, less inclined to care about how they look in the eyes of others, and are somewhat skeptical about new products.

2. Gossip

When I’ve changed my fourth decade, it’s not so important that Masha from the next department did something at a corporate party, whom Pasha meets behind his wife’s back and what passions were boiling in the family of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. It turns out that there are many other, much more interesting things in life.

3. Others' expectations

You try to do what brings joy, not what your parents, friends, spouses, former teachers and classmates expect from you.

If you always wanted to travel the world in a camper van and give ukulele lessons, and mother and head teacher Maryivanna predicted a career as a successful lawyer, it is after 30 that you will most likely fulfill your dream without looking back at others.

The same applies to the choice of a partner: the older you get, the less you are interested in what friends and acquaintances think of your spouse.

4. Your own birthday

If earlier it was considered "good form" to have a noisy party - to invite everyone to a quest, bowling, karaoke or somewhere else, then after the 30th birthday becomes a personal date.

And you celebrate it first of all for yourself, as it is convenient. You call only those guests whom you really want to see, do what you like first of all. Or maybe you just stay at home alone to watch TV shows all day and eat goodies. Or you give yourself a trip, turn off your phone and enjoy new places and countries.

5. Gadgets

There were times when we all (and if not all, then many) were chasing technical innovations. And they thought that putting a push-button phone on a table in a cafe when other friends had an iPhone was a real shame.

But the older you get, the less you care about window dressing: the release date of the gadget and its price or the label on your clothes. If a push-button “dialer” or a worn-out second-hand jeans suit you in everything, you will not buy other things for the sake of mythical “status”.

6. Social networks

Change avatar. Refresh status. Post a funny picture or interesting article. Reload the page, waiting for likes and comments. Worry about not having enough hearts. Upload another photo. And so - almost every day.

When you are in your 30s, all this "dancing" around your own popularity on social networks is most likely in the past. If self-promotion is necessary for making money, it becomes thoughtful, methodical and deliberate work. And if not, you just keep the page for yourself and your loved ones the way you like. Or even abandoned all accounts a long time ago.

This is confirmed by the statistics Time spent on social media: users aged 16 to 34 spend on average 2, 5–3 hours a day on social networks, and 35-year-olds - already 2 hours. The older people are, the less this time is.

7. Loneliness

In his early 20s, a person usually discovers that his friends and classmates, one after another, get married, acquire children, cars, mortgage apartments. Someone who does not have all of this may feel uncomfortable surrounded by couples: thoughts of a ticking clock and that something is wrong with you come to mind.

But if you are single at 30, it doesn't matter whether you were previously married or not, you just enjoy your freedom. And you don't feel a pang of envy when a friend invites you to her second wedding.

Research Says Loneliness - What characteristics and circumstances are associated with feeling lonely? on the same: people between the ages of 16 and 24 feel lonely more often than those who are older. Least of all, loneliness is felt by those who are 65 or older.

8. Winter clothing

Oh, these attempts to ignore the temperature outside the window and dress in something short, tight and seductive, regardless of the weather. And then enjoy your own irresistible beauty and with it - "falling off" knees, blue ankles and fingers, inflammatory diseases of the pelvic organs and a head that aches from the cold.

Such nonsense usually remains beyond the threshold of thirty. When you really matured, in the cold you are ready to wrap yourself in the largest and most shapeless blanket-coat, pull a hat up to your nose, hide in an immense hood, and put your legs in something furry, waterproof and stable. And it doesn't matter that from the outside you look like a fat caterpillar: the main thing is warmth.

9. Compliance with your environment

If in the second year of college everyone goes for a walk and drinks, it will be awkward to say that you are going to sleep or prepare for seminars. Suddenly they will decide that you are a nerd and a nerd, and will not be called anywhere else.

At 30 you almost don't care about such things: if the whole team goes to the bar on Fridays, and you want to return home and lie under a blanket with a book, you just say goodbye and leave.

10. Parting

At the age of 20, after a break with a loved one, the earth literally leaves from under our feet. It seems that the world has collapsed, and it is not clear how to live on, even if it is difficult to breathe.

At 30, parting, of course, is also taken hard, especially if the relationship has lasted more than one year. But as you get older, you find yourself more prepared for these things. Few adults do not scroll in advance in their heads what they will do in the event of a break.

In addition, after 30, a person has many anchor points that will help to resist, even if it is very painful inside: work and career, children, hobbies and goals, relatives to take care of, and so on.